On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:28:34AM -0500, Greg Toombs wrote: > I'm running a shiny new installation of Gentoo, and wireshark *looked* > like it compiled alright. And (although it has no icon) the menu entry > for wireshark correctly starts it up in non-root mode, although > non-root mode is pretty much useless.
The next version (yet to be released) has a ./configure option that lets you run Wireshark as non-root while the capturing part runs a root :). > First of all, wireshark didn't install a "run with gksudo" menu entry > in XFCE, but that's not the biggest problem. When I run wireshark from > the terminal it works, but when I run sudo wireshark I get Wireshark doesn't install any window manager specific things at this time other than providing a wireshark.desktop file. > (wireshark:26800): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > When I run echo $DISPLAY it gives > :0.0 sudo/su doesn't always carry your environment variables to the program being run as root. To verify this is happening, try sudo echo $DISPLAY and verify it is blank. If so, try adding the DISPLAY variable assignment to your root shell's startup dot-file and see if that works. Your sudo may also have an option to preserve environment variables such as DISPLAY when running. I don't have a Linux machine handy at the moment to try it out, but on MacOS X sudo does preserve environment variables and has an option not to. Steve _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
